Learning in Portfolio Work: Anchored Innovation and Mobile Identity

Autor/in	Fenwick, Tara J.
Titel	Learning in Portfolio Work: Anchored Innovation and Mobile Identity
Quelle	In: Studies in Continuing Education, 26 (2004) 2, S.229-245 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-037X
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Adult Educators; Nursing Education; Educational Innovation; Foreign Countries; Learning Processes; Nurses; Consultants; Identification (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Pflegepädagogik; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Ausland; Learning process; Lernprozess; Consultant; Berater
Abstract	Portfolio work has become recognized as a significant if under-researched form of work emerging in changing work structures. This article presents findings of a qualitative study of nurses and adult educators who function as 'portfolio professionals', in that they contract their services to multiple employers and organizations. Proceeding from interpretive analysis of their narratives, the focus here is their learning processes, particularly in relation to innovation. It is argued that they must learn how to perform innovative work while learning and acting within innovative work. Three learning/acting processes are identified: discerning and rendering something that others understand to be innovative, mobilizing others' activities around the innovation, and anchoring or integrating the innovation within existing systems. These processes inevitably entwine portfolio professionals' identities (as innovators) and their knowledge (as innovative models). Thus they are in danger of becoming fixed or anchored along with an innovation, and an important contrary movement is slipping away and beyond the very anchors they work to render. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10